My two cents: "dirt" maybe applies only to road surface "ground" human impacted 'earth' "earth" as natural as remains depending on location
=Russ -----Original Message----- From: Georg Feddern [mailto:o...@bavarianmallet.de] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:03 AM To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools Subject: Re: [Tagging] surface=ground/dirt/earth Am 13.03.2014 15:56, schrieb fly: > On 13.03.2014 15:37, Fernando Trebien wrote: >> But do you think that earth and ground are different kinds of surface? > Well, I would consider earth as earth where ground could be earth but > does not have to be. > > All together, I think we could get rid of at least one out of the three > tags after updating the descriptions but this will not that easy with > existing tags in common use. aehm, well - and which one would you get rid of? Some times ago I remember a likewise identical discussion at the german forum. AFAIK: ground Used for ways where the underground consists of different and often changing parts like rock, earth, vegetation (generic value) - as you say above. earth Used for ways where the underground consists of - well, earth (natural sand) constantly. dirt See above - the term seems to be outside of OSM used for a "man made" / constructed work - which inside OSM seems to be the (defined) value "compacted". So I would get rid of dirt, but keep 'earth' beside 'ground' as a useful value (smooth walking on hiking trails) . Georg _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
